268 cuckow. 



The name given to this last was Sirkeer. — In a drawing of 

 another, from Oude, it was called Mukooke. 



Among the collection of drawings of Gen. Hardwicke is a bird 

 of this kind. Bill the same ; upper parts of the plumage mostly 

 pale brown, beneath pale rufous, with a dusky line down the shafts 

 of the feathers ; tail greatly cuneiform, the two middle feathers eight 

 inches in length, and brown, the outmost five ; all of them white at 

 the ends, the exterior for more than one inch and a half; legs blue. 



Inhabits India, called Surkool, and weighed three ounces six 

 drachms and a half. A male, called Sircea, at Cawnpore, in July, 

 weighed four ounces eight drams. The last five have been described 

 from the accurate drawings of Gen. Hardwicke, under whose inspec- 

 tion they were copied from real specimens; of this fact we are certain, 

 but have not been able to obtain any account of the manners, which 

 would have been highly desirable. 



8 —FERRUGINOUS-NECKED CUCKOW. 



LENGTH thirteen or fourteen inches. Bill stout, bent at the 

 end, yellow, with a bar of black near the tip; under mandible 

 orange red; crown of the head, including the eyes, ash-colour; the 

 rest of the head, neck, beginning of the back, and wing coverts fine 

 deep ferruginous, the feathers loose and downy ; the rest of the bird 

 black, glossed with purple ; tail near seven inches long, and cunei- 

 form, glossed in the same manner ; the wings short, scarcely reaching 

 beyond the base ; legs stout, black, claws curved. 



The description taken from a fine drawing in possession of Mr. 

 Dent, but without name, or mention of the place whence it came. 



